Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

tag editor: terminal emulator: Terminal text editor: nano (gedit, if graphical needed) video player: mplayer web browser: firefox, elinks word-processor: OO.org Writer Favorite gui app not mentioned above: Tomboy -- arijit sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] India

Re: docx files

for many soft wares to offer read/write support. If possible, tell him to send the document in some ISO standard document format like, Open Document Format. If not possible, then at least in Office2003 format. -- Arijit Sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

to actually be faster... Hugo I use both. And personally I feel Opera bit faster. After opening multiple tabs (around 10-12 tabs), opera's responsiveness is still better than firefox. -- Arijit Sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Asus motherboard and Sound

at the end of the file. options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack save and reboot. try now. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote for Debian on Lenovo

for debian. thanks for the information. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 30, 8:30 pm, arijit sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, Iceweasel is Firefox without the Talkback component, which is not open and matches debian-philosophy. The name and logo are also nonfree in Firefox. thanks for the correction

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: Greetings, I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to the product description section, you do

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

-gui, or maybe bittorrent-gui, would be good for you. Mark Ktorrent is working for me fine. No crashing. You can use transmission. It's simple. It doesn't have many options like other clients have. But it works. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

UUID naming for devices

0 1 -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

latest flash installed, but you can install JRE 6.0 instead of v6.1 or even you can use JRE 5. It won't create any problem. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian

to use google-desktop because, when there are open-source/free alternatives present I always go for it. in this case beagle. :) -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

) is a breeze. It might not be the case if you are running sid though! But if you are running sid, I assume you know what you are doing... My rule of thumb: 1. install 'deborphan' package. 2. run it. 3. you can safely remove the packages listed by deborphan. It never let me down. -- Arijit Sarkar

Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?

boxes from sarge to etch Stumble no longet was installed into iceweasel, though it is installed on the system. It just does not show up. Any tips?? Thanks! -- John W. Foster -- --- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India ---

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

completely original and thus maintain complete personal control. No one else will want to read the thing anyway :-) -- --- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India ---

my DVD is'nt recognized or automounted but k3b detects it perfectly

Nero7 from Windows XP long ago before I switched to linux. It worked in windows perfectly. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

been six months), I never had any idea about LVM. I'll do that soon. I'm learning new things everyday. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

at the end of the kernel options. reboot the machine. everything should work fine. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

Can I resize my partition after installation ?

. but in that article, partitioning has done while installing first OS, which I didn't. So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

. :-) -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux attachment: smiley-3.png

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg [SOLVED]: CONFIRMATION

. thanks to, Eeltje, execute the following command as root, # cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers # gcc -shared -o nvidia_drv.so nvidia_drv.o Then restart X. thats all. everything will be fine again. no need to reinstall nvidia-driver again. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 12, 11:20 am, arijit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. Error shown : unable to load module: nvidia right now

Re: Problem installing Wine

wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/etch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list Now, just run sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install wine you'll have latest version of Wine. It did works for me well. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

-- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

Re: [SOLVED] Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

. thanks everybody. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

Hi all, In synaptic window, i've one status named Installed (local or obsolete). There are few packages under this status. Why these are so? I am confused with obsolete status. How can I remove that status message? thanks, -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

Re: Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

/obsolete) section as well as in 'deborphan'. libbind9-0 liblwres9 libntfs-3g0 -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

I want to install lenny from scratch

are the steps I have to follow? thanks in advance, -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Gnome on Debian GNU/Linux

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:22 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On 6/7/07, arijit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much yes. You might want to replace with 'lenny' instead of testing, so that things will be smoother when lenny is released, but there is some time for that, I think. :-) Thank you

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

at my home pc, i am okay with that. By the way, since I am new to debian, I always plays with it and sometimes it breaks even in etch (i am a newbie). so I'll be prepared for that. anyway thanks for your advice. I'll do the transition after evaluting my all options. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

it? will it be okay? -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Gnome on Debian GNU/Linux